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Bookmarks that can be set to expire.
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Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-12-15 09:30:41 UTC
As I suggested on Twitter and others before me:

It would be nice if bookmarks could have an expiration date of 48 hours to auto-delete. This is specifically geared towards bookmarking wormholes, but it can have other applications as well. Perhaps even a customization timer on when to delete, but 48 hours is the max life for a wormhole and I figured that is what it would most likely be used for.

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Tora Bushido
Commonwealth Mercenaries
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#2 - 2014-12-15 09:34:24 UTC
Good idea ! Saves a lot of time cleaning up bm's and also makes CCP's database smaller. Blink

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Aran Hotchkiss
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-12-15 10:21:46 UTC
+1

This'd make for a nice QoL improvement.

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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2014-12-15 10:27:41 UTC
very useful idea. I'd be OK with 12, 24, and 48 hour expiration. it would be nice to have the timer follow the bookmark, so that if I copy it to cargo and give it to someone, it will still expire.

I'd rather not have it automatically delete itself, however. old wormhole locations are good for recycling into safes off the ecliptic. a red "expired" status (in text) would be ok too.

it would be excellent if I had a choice between deletion and a notification in place.

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Ab'del Abu
Atlantis Ascendant
#5 - 2014-12-15 10:31:52 UTC
yes!
Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#6 - 2014-12-15 10:39:37 UTC
Could easily be set to expire on the 3rd downtime if nothing else to not tast server on checks.

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Mynxee
Signal Cartel
EvE-Scout Enclave
#7 - 2014-12-15 11:02:57 UTC
I support this idea, preferring the option to expire be the default with a VERY CLEAR checkbox in the bookmark creation dialog that could be unchecked for bookmarks I want to keep in perpetuity.

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Rhavas
Noble Sentiments
Second Empire.
#8 - 2014-12-15 13:15:45 UTC
+1

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Dustpuppy
New Eden Ferengi
#9 - 2014-12-15 13:21:15 UTC
Why?

I just place WH bookmarks in a sub folder and if required create a second one (with the date mentioned in the folder name). No problem to delete folders with names older than 2 days.
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#10 - 2014-12-15 13:47:48 UTC
Good idea

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Doomheim
#11 - 2014-12-15 15:17:32 UTC
Gawd yes.

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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
#12 - 2014-12-15 15:37:22 UTC
+1

While this would likely save time for players and keep the EvE database small, I worry about how much throughput it will take to process every single new bookmark to see if they need to be kept or removed. I'm sure CCP could tackle it.

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Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#13 - 2014-12-15 16:59:55 UTC
Dustpuppy wrote:
Why?

I just place WH bookmarks in a sub folder and if required create a second one (with the date mentioned in the folder name). No problem to delete folders with names older than 2 days.


If it is a corp bookmark then you need a special role to delete any that are not yours.
Ab'del Abu
Atlantis Ascendant
#14 - 2014-12-15 18:15:21 UTC
Dustpuppy wrote:
Why?

I just place WH bookmarks in a sub folder and if required create a second one (with the date mentioned in the folder name). No problem to delete folders with names older than 2 days.



It also doesn't scale well for wormhole purposes. There are some wormholes that last two days, some that last 1 day, some that last only 16 hours. Then there are wormholes that are at their end of life (<= 4 hours).
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#15 - 2014-12-15 18:24:10 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
very useful idea. I'd be OK with 12, 24, and 48 hour expiration. it would be nice to have the timer follow the bookmark, so that if I copy it to cargo and give it to someone, it will still expire.

I'd rather not have it automatically delete itself, however. old wormhole locations are good for recycling into safes off the ecliptic. a red "expired" status (in text) would be ok too.

it would be excellent if I had a choice between deletion and a notification in place.


If you don't want it deleted, you could also use one that does not expire so CCP don't have to code the expire without deleting code path.
Caldari 5
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Affirmative.
#16 - 2014-12-15 18:24:34 UTC
+1 Nice simple(conceptually) and good QoL idea
Matcha Mosburger
Matsuko Holding
#17 - 2014-12-15 18:47:53 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
very useful idea. I'd be OK with 12, 24, and 48 hour expiration. it would be nice to have the timer follow the bookmark, so that if I copy it to cargo and give it to someone, it will still expire.

I'd rather not have it automatically delete itself, however. old wormhole locations are good for recycling into safes off the ecliptic. a red "expired" status (in text) would be ok too.

it would be excellent if I had a choice between deletion and a notification in place.


Or do this, but give us the ability to "Delete all Expired", and then the second function of "Save Bookmark" so like the WH used for safe spots, after it expires you edit the BM and "Save" it which removes the time and the Red.